Prisoners news from aidsmap

Treatment with extended-release naltrexone is associated with improved viral suppression among HIV-positive prisoners, according to two US studies presented at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2018) in Boston, USA.Investigators followed patients for ...

“Prisoners are among
the most neglected of the key populations; they bear higher burdens of HIV,
viral hepatitis and tuberculosis than in the communities from which they come,”
said Professor Chris Beyrer of Johns Hopkins University and outgoing President
of ...

Activists
say that a United Nations Political Declaration on
Ending AIDS, due to be finalised this week at a UN High-Level Meeting on Ending
AIDS in New York, could exclude language recognising the critical importance of
key populations for the ...

IAPAC, the International Association of Practitioners in
AIDS Care, has issued a set of guidelines that aims to establish a common set of
best practices to ensure that as many people living with HIV as possible are diagnosed,
cared ...

Reducing the duration of direct-acting antiviral treatment
for hepatitis C will make treatment for people in prison in England highly
cost-effective, and could provide an important opportunity for providing access
to hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs, ...

The presence of tuberculosis (TB) at the
initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) predicts retention in care, according to a study presented by
Dr Enegela at the 17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa
(ICASA), held in Cape ...

The global war on drugs has had a
disastrous impact on the hepatitis C epidemic, a new report from the Global
Commission on Drug Policy shows. The
Negative Impact of the War on Drugs on Public Health: The Hidden ...

Limited partner choice, wider age gaps between
partners, and mistaken beliefs about HIV status in regular partners are all
driving the substantially higher rates of HIV in US black gay men relative to
other ethnicities, a recent study suggests. ...

Infection with HIV per se does not increase the risk of colonisation with community-associated
MRSA, according to US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The investigators found that prevalence of
nasal colonisation with community-associated ...

Prisoners news selected from other sources

NAT (National AIDS Trust) has issued new guidelines to boost efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat blood-borne viruses (BBVs) in prisons. Prevalence of BBVs such as HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are four times higher amongst people in prisons than in the general population. Hepatitis accounts for 93% of viral infections reported in prisons.

Systematic inequities are at the root of incarceration and HIV for women. The behaviors that lead women to incarceration and HIV are rooted in poverty, traumatic childhoods, and sexual and physical abuse at the hands of sexual partners, who are often at risk of HIV infection too.

The estimated number of state and federal prisoners known to be HIV-positive is at its lowest since 1991, according to a report called "HIV in Prisons, 2015," released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Justice Minister Shane Rattenbury on Friday released new figures showing how new drugs for the virus had helped reduce the number of Hepatitis C-positive inmates from 30% of the prison population in 2010 down to just three per cent this year.

New tuberculosis (TB) ethics guidance, launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to help ensure that countries implementing the End TB Strategy adhere to sound ethical standards to protect the rights of all those affected.

The number of people developing and dying from tuberculosis (TB) is falling in Europe, but among the most vulnerable - including migrants, prisoners and people who are HIV positive - there have been worrying increases, data showed on Monday.

Although HIV rates are higher among the African American community compared to the White population, research shows that engagement in risky behaviors does not fully account for these differences.According to the model, two main factors -- disproportionate drug-arrests and sentencing of African American communities -- lead to pathways of HIV vulnerability.

The authors estimate that, of the approximately 10.2 million people incarcerated on any given day, 3.8 percent (or 389,000 people) are living with HIV. In the United States, prisons in Florida, Maryland and New York have higher rates of HIV prevalence than any country outside sub-Saharan Africa.

Prisoners are likely to be the primary risk group for HIV infections in Eastern Europe in the next 15 years, researchers from the University of Bristol have found. Their study was published as part of series in the Lancet on HIV and related infections in prisoners, which was also presented at this month's International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.

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